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Specification 0t Letters Patent.

Application filed November 27, 1907. Serial No. 404,089.

Patented Aug. 4, 1908;

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that I, CHARLES ll". Kenn) LER, a citizen of the United States, rut-ding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and Statc -of lllino1s, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Roosts. of

which the following is a specification, was ence being had to the accompanying drawit iy invention'relates to improvements in poultry roosts and consists of the novel fea tures 'of constructionand the combination and arran ement of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention'is to provide a simple and practical poultry roost which will effectively prevent the spread of lice and other insects and which may be readily taken apart and cleaned.

The above and other objects of the invent-ionare attained in the preferred .emhedh ment of the same illustrated in the {ICCODIPRF nying drawings, in which v Figure l is a sectional perspective of a poultry house showing my improved roost therein; Fi 2 is a detail vertical section through one of the roosting bars, a portion of one of the supporting bars and one of the cups; and Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the lane indicatcdby the line 3-3 in Fig. l. A y improved roost comprises roosting bars 1 removably mounted upon the u per ends of upright supporting pins :3 which arranged upon any suitable sup )orting strucprei'crably in the form of a plurality of ba1s3 arranged at right angles to the rposting bars and supported upon similar pins 4 which are in turn arranged on suitable supports 5. These sup ports 5 are'shown in Figl as blocks secured inclination as more clearly shown in F 2. r

upon the opposite walls of the poultry house 6. .Any suitable number of the supporting bars 3 may be empl yed and they are preferably arranged in parallel relation and at an may be.

This inclination of the supporting bars csuses the roosting bars 1, which are preferably parj 1 111181;t0 be disposed in thizerent horizontal j planes so that the poultry may readily mount 3 thelowermost roosting bars and then jump to the upper ones. The supporting pins 2, 4

have pointed lower ends 6 adapted to neg driven into vertical sockets 7 formed in the bars '3 and the blocks or brackets 5, and said j ends of the pins are also formed with up- 3 wm-[llv nrnim-tino' smirs S which mevenr the casual disengagement of the pins from the sockets 7- \ert-i'cal so kets 9 are formed in the bottom faces .of the roosting bars 1 and the supporting bars 3 for the reception of the I v upper ends of thepins L, 4, said sockets 9 being somewhat larger in diameter than said pins so that the bars 1. 3 may be readily removed from the pins when it is desired to disassemble the roost for cleaning or other 5 purposes.

Arranged upon the :nns '2, 4 at points intermediate their ends-are annular llangcs or collars 10 which form supporting shoulders for removable liquid receptacles 11 in the- 76 form of cups. The latter are )referably head-spherical or cylindrical and ormcd at theircenter with an upright concentric tubular stem 12 adapted to receive the upper por tion of one of the supporting pins. The tubu- 7'5 'lar stems 12 are adapted to snugly lit the supover-the cups, especially when such icguid is 35 an oil or a special preparation for ling. them.

improved roost is exceedinglv simple and inexpensive in construction, that it may be utckly'and easily set up and as readily taken own for cleaning or other" purposes, and that the pr vision of the liquid cups upon the supporting pins will ell'ectively prevent the spread of lice or other insects from one palt of the structure to another.

Having thus described my invention wha I claim is:

1. In a poultry roost, the combination of inclined supporting bats formed with vertical sockets, upright pins having their lower ends removably inserted in said sockets, sanl pins being provided intermediate their ends with annular collars to provide supporting shoulders, liquid receptacles having centrally dis: 5 Z osed tubular stems pro ecting from their liottom to their top and adapted to fit over the. upper ends of said pins, said receptacles being adapted to restupon the supporting shoulders zontal roosting bar formed nuts bottom with-- vertical sockets to receive the upper ends of F ronr the foregoing it will be seen thatmy orn-ed by saidcollais, and a hori 11o- 2 r y 895mb said pit-s whereby said roosting bar will be i reniovably supported upon the latter and spaced above said receptacles, substantially. as described.

2. In a poultry roost, the combination of a support or frame, brackets upon the same, vertical pins in said brackets and formed with stop shoulders, liquid cups reniovably arranged upon said pins and supported by said shoulders, inclined supportin formed in their bottom faces with socdiets to receive the upper ends of said pins whereby they are removnbly supported upon the lather, other vertical pins projecting upwardly from said supporting bars and formed with stop shoulders. liquid cups reinovably arl l l i i l l bars l l f l ranged upon the. last mentioned supporting pinsjand adapted to engage said shoulders, and parallel roosting bars arranged at. right angles above the supporting bars and formed in their bottoiniaees with sockets to receive the upper ends of the last inentloned pins whereby said lOOStlIl" bars are removnbly nioun ted upon the latter, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hei'eunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES W. KREIDLER.

Witnesses:

Gsonor. JOHNSTON,- CHARLES BEAL. 

